Brain, Health
Apparently, some people have known since 1911 that cyclists pedal faster when listening to music. An American researcher, Leonard Ayres, discovered that listening to music competes for your brain’s attention and can therefore distract you from the pain and tiredness that your brain would otherwise complain about. (Hmmm…. Leonard Ayres… [...]
Brain, General
OMG TESLA! OK! So now I’m going to sound like an advert for the new Tesla electric car. I’m not on commission, honest! But, just like Genius Material, it’s an absolute game changer. A ‘disrupter’. Changing gear… In a week that heard VW admitting they’d fiddled their emissions data, and [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, General
You havin’ a larff? It may be no laughing matter, but we all enjoy a good cackle, especially if we’re in the company of others it seems. Watch this entertaining video about the neuroscience of laughing, with Sophie Scott. And by the way, we’re not the only ones fond of [...]
Brain
An expression coined in 1968, by psychologist, Robert Merton, it refers to the tendency for early advantage to augment over time. It’s taken from a line from the bible. From the Gospel of Matthew, in fact. (But you were already there, weren’t you!) “For whoever has, to him more shall [...]
Brain, General
When was the last time you enjoyed reading a book? Yes! I said ‘book’, not online article! And, all the way to the end? We’ve got so accustomed to flitting about on the interweb that actually reading something to the end is becoming a lost skill. The way we think [...]
Brain, Health
Talking of the mysterious workings of the mind, which have you got? Fear or phobia? Do you care either way? When you’re afraid, you’re afraid! So there I was on Monday, about to walk out of the door, to go to my ballet lesson, when the ‘phone rang… Of course [...]
Brain, General
Don’t panic! Earworms are those ever so catchy, and increasingly annoying songs you can’t get out of your head. Sometimes a persistent ditty will even drive you nuts, and no matter how hard you try to not hear it, it’s still there, going round and round and round and round… [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, General, Health
What are Stress and Anxiety? Stress is the word we use to describe the arousal of the autonomic nervous system. It’s what motivates us to get things done, to rise to a challenge or to get out of the way of a car driving fast towards us. However, these days [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, General
The TV People! They’re here! Wey hey! We’re a Grand Designs Landmark! Top secret, hush hush. Gotta wait until the programme airs! Well! Didn’t see that coming! My ghast has been flabbered by this latest, ahem… development. (Like what I did there?) 🙂 Can’t say too much at this stage, [...]
Brain, Studying Techniques
It was reckoned by psychologist George Miller in 1956, that depending on circumstances, we can only pay attention to roughly 7 things at a time. Hey, if you think that number’s pretty small, you’ll be even less impressed that more recently, memory and attention expert Nelson Cowan, established that it [...]
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